Fwd:Cool "Hacking Poverty" project January 21-22

[Tyler Garner]

So we got this email at work today and I thought it would be good to pass on to the group.

Tyler -- iPhoned

Begin forwarded message:

From: Tyler Garner <tga...@bluehost.com>
Date: January 13, 2011 11:58:58 AM MST
To: padl...@gmail.com
Subject: [Fwd: Cool "Hacking Poverty" project January 21-22]

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Thank you,
Tyler
Level 1 Tech Support Engineer

One of our customers is running a special developers conference in a week here in Orem.  I am just passing on his email in case anyone is interested in attending.

Regards,

James Grierson

VP Business Development

BlueHost / HostMonster / FastDomain

(801) 765-9400 x113

(801) 765-1992 (fax)

ja...@bluehost.com

Hi,

My name is Zach Stay, and I am a 12th grader at Mountain View High School in Orem, UT.

I am inviting you and your company to join me in fighting poverty through writing code!

I am planning a developers conference in a few weeks this January that will make applications that will assist in the fight against poverty.

We are calling this event "Hacking Poverty"!

I got this idea from reading about an event called "Random Hacks of Kindness," a developers conference that made applications that helped during natural disasters. One of these was a twitter application that was used heavily during the earthquake in Haiti. That conference was organized and funded by Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, and several other Bay 
Area firms.

There was no conference like this that I could find that was focusing on making applications to help fight poverty.  I also thought we needed something that could get all these Utah high-tech companies involved and do their part to fulfill their social responsibilities!  I mean, we can’t let those Silicon Valley firms show us up, can we?

I thought you would be interested in helping support this event. These are the things specifically I was wondering if you could contribute.

1. Would you be willing to email this letter out to your co-workers or friends that work for other companies and promote this event? We would love to have as much support as possible. If they decide to come, have them RSVP at this location.  

2. Would you look over our list of possible applications and see if you would be interested in working on one of them or if you have another idea that you want to submit for review to be worked on at the conference?

3. If your organization is interested in making a small donation, we would publicize your organization at the event. We are trying to cover the costs of the event, such as food through donations.

Here are the details: 

Dates:  January 21, 2011 3:00 pm - 9:00 pm
           January 22, 2011 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Location: Mountain View High School
               665 W Center St
               Orem, UT 84057

Bring:  - Laptop
           - Access to required programming tools
           - Additional ideas to be developed

We will provide wifi access.

The developers can come and go throughout the conference.  If you can only make it there for a few hours, we would still love to see you.  If you can be there the entire time, even better!

We will have a handful of applications we are working on to help fight poverty.  The developers that show up will be able to select which application they want to help with.  If they have a new idea to be involved with, they can do that as well.  We will have application development leads assigned to lead out each project.  This is a great chance to make important network connections with peers from other companies.

We will have a handful of VIP speakers who will briefly speak at various points throughout the conference. 
We will provide food and snacks for both days.  

Once the projects are completed, they will be made available for free download as open source code...

Respectfully,

Zach Stay
801-734-9782
in...@hackingpoverty.org

www.hackingpoverty.org

 

PS- Also feel free to give an idea for an application of your own for the conference, or to join our Facebook group.

 

FIGHTING POVERTY WITH MAD CODING SKILLS!